What's the best practice for implementing a "content disclaimer" that doesn't block search robots?

[TheNorthernOffice79]

Our client needs a content disclaimer on their site.  This is a simple "If you agree to these rules then click YES if not click NO" and you're pushed back to the home page.

I have this gut feeling that this may cause an upset with the search robots.

Any advice?

R/

John

[beeneeb]

Hi John.  I've seen some websites that use a simple box that is "lightboxed" on top of the content.  When you click Yes, the lightbox appears and the content is shown as normal.  To a search engine, this would look like a perfectly normal website.

However, if your "click yes or click no" refers the end-user to another page ONLY AFTER they click yes, then this would be a huge issue with search engines.

I'd recommend using the "User Agent Switcher" in Firefox to view your site as a Googlebot.  This should tell you whether or not it's seeing the entire site or just a portion of your site:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher/